Return to farming after orthopedic surgery: A systematic review

Table 2 Methodological index for non-randomized studies criteria of the included studies

MINORS criterion	Korovessis et al[12], 1999	Carlson [11], 2005	Pop et al[10], 2016	Mihata et al[15], 2018	Gowd et al[13], 2019	Mihata et al[16], 2019	Shimada et al[14], 2023	Ohta et al[18], 2024	Mihata et al[17], 2025	Green et al[19], 2022
Cleary stated aim	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Inclusion of consecutive patients	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	2	1
Prospective collection of data	2	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	2	1
Endpoints appropriate to the aim of the study	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Unbiased assessment of the study endpoint	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	1
Follow-up period appropriate to the arm of the study	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Loss to follow-up < 5%	1	1	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	2
Prospective calculation of the study size	0	-	-	0	0	-	0	0	-	-
Adequate control group	2	-	-	2	2	-	2	2	-	-
Contemporary groups	2	-	-	2	2	-	2	2	-	-
Baseline equivalence of groups	1	-	-	1	2	-	1	2	-	-
Adequate statistical analyses	1	-	-	2	2	-	2	2	-	-
Total score	17	8	8	19	19	11	18	18	11	11

MINORS: Methodological index for non-randomized studies.